I have a cream colored pickguard, and it's just too damned....bright and "new looking". Same with the pup rings.

What's the fastest, cheapest way to relic them? I don't want to use nitrocellulose, or even order anything. I was thinking of going to walmart and getting some kind of polyurethane finish.

What do you think?

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Buy a fingernail polishing stick from the dollar store ( it is actually different grades of micromesh) & file or buff the whole thing working from courses to finest ,
then buy ritz clothing dyes . yellow & sunset orange & soak in each,
Then buff with fine polisher grades to lighten in heavy areas ,
then you can use shoe polish brown ( the hard can kind) & rub to darken if you desire
Also rub it in dry dirt or a heavily used outdoor rug
Can add the fake string wear under each string before the above steps with a small file

Buy a fingernail polishing stick from the dollar store ( it is actually different grades of micromesh) & file or buff the whole thing working from courses to finest ,
then buy ritz clothing dyes . yellow & sunset orange & soak in each,
Then buff with fine polisher grades to lighten in heavy areas ,
then you can use shoe polish brown ( the hard can kind) & rub to darken if you desire
Also rub it in dry dirt or a heavily used outdoor rug
Can add the fake string wear under each string before the above steps with a small file

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Wow...thanks.
So, I have to kind of ruff it up first with the fingernail polishing stick?

another way I believe will work well Is to use a box & double stick tape the part to upper lid & smoke it with incense or nicatine
,I use a incense bong bottle to age my tips from white to a dark amber. It puts a hard rezon which if too dark can be micromeshed back

Thanks Flick. I worked on relicing my PG a few weeks ago. The kiwi brown shoe polish worked great, problem was it fades out completely in one good sun sitting. I even tried putting it on thick and letting it sit for 20min. No go, it still faded out after a morning in the sun.